The sub was closed as part of the protests.
Edit: this news has developed, the new mod deleted their account and the post. I didn’t get a screenshot of the original post, but if anyone supplies one I’ll link it here.
Anybody who supports free and open source software should fuck outta reddit already. Also if you can use any Linux distribution you shouldn’t have any problems getting used to lemmy
I think the main problem with Lemmy (and with Mastodon and many fediverse software too) is discoverability, expecially when the network is so small like in our case.
Lemmy ranking algorithm suck, it never succede in showing me interesting content, unless you opt for a “subscribed only” feed I can’t see why follow communities if they never impact how they appear, and discovering new interesting communities is basically impossible, all the ones I follow are from reddit refugees that left a pinned post on Reddit saying “you can find us at this Lemmy instance as c/…”
Keeping the Reddit sub makes sense for one reason. There are tons of thread, and answers. When you search something, Reddit comes among the first options. Fedi hosts have different links, hence it’s harder to find.
I didn’t think it was going to be so big, but some valuable information has already been lost.
The people that decided to mass change their comments to “We moved to Lemmy due to reddit, etc.” Or flat out delete them. Obviously it’s their choice, but they did more harm than good with that.
I was recently looking into info about Plex servers on Linux and half of the answers, and mind you they are ranging from months to years old, are filled with “deleted comment” and “moved to Lemmy”.
They didn’t hurt reddit by doing that, they hurt the community.
Hurting the community Hurts reddit, reddit is literally nothing without the community. No incentive for people to go there if they can’t find what they’re looking for. We just need more time and people to start populating lemmy with the sort of answers you’re looking for. It sucks but it’s realistically the only way to make change.
kbin is a lot better with disoverability.
I get better results than with lemmy
Yikes. On the bright side, this seems like a much better place for learning about Linux overall anyway.
The Venn diagram of people who would migrate forums over ideological reasons and people who like Linux is a circle.
Unfortunately, it isn’t. There’s also a bunch of corporate types who like Linux merely because they enjoy exploiting other people’s free labor.
What a shitfest. Reddit is now a true autocracy and people are gobbling up their disinformation. It’s sad, truly.
People are just to lazy to change things they’re bothered by. Why stand up for yourself when you have to change your behavior?
I had Reddit withdrawal symptoms for maybe the first 2 weeks, but now I’m hooked on Lemmy and it feels great!
In opposition to your username, that makes total sense. I frequently get baffled by people doing this IRL.
I recently went to a concert where due to unforeseen circumstances, the view of like 100 people was completely obstructed. I mean sure, its a concert, you still can listen, but it massively impacts the value they get for their money in comparison to others.
So, being one of those 100 people, I went to the people managing the concert and asked what to do about it. I was given a free ticket for prime seats with great view which pretty much doubled the value I got for my money. I asked others who were impacted to follow me but they had other „priorities“ which then made me the only one getting an upgrade.
I felt pretty bad about it but that’s my own problem. The fact that people can’t be bothered to stand up for themselves is a mystery to me.
Have a good one. :)
Nah, it’s not laziness, it’s just a bad trade for many people as of now. Because there’s not that much content on lemmy for now, especially for more niche topics. And nobody wants to start a thing. They just want to lurk or ask questions, not post stuff/moderate. At least that’s my impression from the people that don’t wanna switch.
Example: path of exile. There’s one post from 5 days ago and the rest are 8 days or older. So naturally everyone that wants to talk about it is still on reddit, unfortunately
Yeah, it’s not even niche topics, it’s almost everything outside of technology. Almost all of the creative communities I used to follow on Reddit have practically no associated activity on the Fediverse. None of the photography communities have really picked up on Lemmy/Kbin either.
There’s some photographers over on Pixelfed but finding content or accounts to follow is pretty bad. I follow maybe a handful of people whose photos I like to look at, and the only mechanism to find good noteworthy accounts is the trending section - which I check daily but it’s mostly the same handful of people everyday. Scrolling to the public feed or trying to follow generic photography hashtags mostly nets me memes, porn and random pics which aren’t photography at all.
I stopped going to Reddit as much, came over here, after a few weeks I’m not using this as much anymore either, so I’m mostly trying to do more useful things with the time. Though I’m sad that I’ve lost a few communities in the way.
Like, it always has been that way. It’s a private company with an owner who decides what’s gonna happen. The opinion of masses is only having changed on that from being praised to finally becoming an evil bastion.
I read some of their comments and it seems like this is a re-created account and they got into contact with the old moderators about it instead of going the /r/RedditRequest route. They did post on /r/RedditRequest about /r/LinuxQuestions.
They are aware of Lemmy and have commented the following
I use lemmy via the browser on my iPhone. It’s not amazing and it has a lot of bugs but I believe it’s a good platform - it’s just not ready yet
and
I’m very pro lemmy but as you say, it’s not quite ready yet. In the meantime, there’s an opportunity to help new users and maintain a decent space for everyone
In /r/Linux’s pinned post they stated that we have new mods despite being the only moderator but commented the following
(We’re waiting to hear back from another user who might be available)
At least so far it doesn’t sound like they are doing it maliciously or squatting on the subreddit. I feel like waiting until they had additional moderators or stating which moderator(s) gave them the go-ahead before making a pinned post along with mentioning that a lot of the community has attempted to migrate to Lemmy would have been a good idea.
Seems crazy to me that Linux people feel like Lemmy isn’t ready? Lemmy is what you make is just like Linux is, at least to me.
I agree. Also, I don’t see where lemmy is not „ready“. Imo, lemmy is doing the „reddit“ just as reddit does but without the fancy shmancy (although I find memmy (for example) looks a lot better than old reddit)
2 months ago, I would have agreed with them, but with liftoff and other apps, plus the old.lemmy themes, the only thing it now lacks is stability on some of the hosts. It’s already a perfect replacement for reddit
I wasn’t here 2 months ago. What changed dramatically? Also, I think people talking down on lemmy while being on reddit are justifying staying on the titanic because the lifeboats are bot what they paid for.
Sorting by hot was broken, gave me 2 year old posts. It’s been fixed in one way, now it’s halfway decent but still has a ways to go.
I think it works pretty well. I had some issues, asked around, got sorted. Can’t complain at all.
the lifeboats are bot what they paid for.
Upvoted for possibly unintentional hilarious typo.
I really hate that particular typo. But yes, it is hilarious.
Edit: today is not my day it seems. Typos everywhere.
When I first jumped over here, there was just the native app and it was trash, they also had only one layout really and it wasn’t great either. Now there are tons of desktop themes and layouts and tons of apps. It’s really changing for the better
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While I sympathize with the issues you are mentioning, they are localized issues. I‘m on !discuss.tchncs.de (I hope I spelled it right). I‘m somewhat of an addict and have 3-4 hrs a day on lemmy (before it was reddit) and I mod communities on both.
Tchncs has not once been down since I joined a month ago. I too cant comment on certain posts but that is a memmy issue, not a lemmy issue (I commented on this and opened a github issue to which I got the reply that the devs are looking into it and might have a fix that should be pushed in the next release or so).
If you‘re seeing tons of nsfw posts I would suggest two things: either change instance since yours seems to be down all the time as well. Second, you might want to change your feed to subscribed once you curated it and only occasionally look into new.
Summary (opinion): Lemmy is not a for profit project and therefore not prioritize maximum polish. Those who code will understand how to make it better (request features and report issues). Those who are not as tech savvy will run into occasional issues which are mostly based on the instance or the client, which is not lemmy.
TL;DR: Lemmy is awesome, most problems are either instance based or client based. Don’t ask for „for-profit-polish“ or you might get it one day. Instead help by coding, hosting, moderating, posting or donating.
Have a good one.
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The uptime issues you are seeing is mostly due to the fact that you are on lemmy.world, which is now by far the largest lemmy instance in terms of userbase. That means it experiences heavy loads which can cause interruptions plus it’s been the target of DDoS attacks for like the past month or so. If you switched to a different instance you wouldn’t see nearly as much of those issues.
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Maybe you’re the one that’s not ready for Lemmy. But we certainly are.
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the most popular version is the most buggy.
It isn’t buggy, it’s overloaded and under attack. You missed my point.
it’s not ready.
Agree to disagree then I guess. Lemmy.world being the instance with the most users doesn’t mean that’s where new people will look to sign up. In fact, if you go to join-lemmy.org it isn’t even listed in the recommended instances. You seem to kind of misunderstand the point of the fediverse; it isn’t to have everyone congregate under one server but instead spread users and content across many instances so that if one does have some downtime, you’ll barely notice.
In fact, I think that the most popular instance having a lot of downtime recently is actually a very good thing, because it means people will create and use different instances than lemmy.world, naturally leading to more decentralization (the whole point of the fediverse).
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If you preferred old.reddit, there’s mlmym.org (which you can also self host if you prefer) and it replicates old.reddit’s interface almost exactly.
Thats insane. Thanks for mentioning it. I suppose I‘m not the focus customer because I don’t really like old reddit. I was referring to many users I talked to who were unhappy with the polished look of reddit (and the thousands of small changes that made life stupidly hard).
Well, not to “gatekeep” but they sound like they are probably more Reddit people than they are Linux people.
Yeah I’m wondering what exactly they meant. Maybe they were referring to the mobile applications?
I could see them having issues with the smaller user base or how a federated platform works with things like finding communities outside of your instance but those aren’t bugs.
Possibly they meant there aren’t enough people here yet/not enough engagement yet. That’s the only thing I miss really, sometimes Lemmy/Kbin still feel a little deserted (although that is changing slowly)
It’s weird how it seems to go through waves. Sometimes there’s a good bit (though not as much as I might like) and sometimes there 0 comments for a while when sorting hot.
Granted I did block some of the more popular mags/communities but only because they were completely drowning everything else out (some of the meme communities, and all the German ones.
The grassroots internet is a thing of the past. Linux is not spared from this. People expect to open an app that’s full of content for them to infinitely scroll.
Hopefully that will motivate people to move to [email protected]
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Ahaha it’s already deleted.
How do I read deleted posts?
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Surely doing something like that will bring nothing but prosperity to the platform. They might as well just fire the CEO and promote the janitors to C-Level execs too, although on a second thought, they might still do a better job than spez
